Xin Jing (Heart Sutra)

[Antonius]

I'm going to post the Heart Sutra here as text. I don't understand, but you need to view it with Chinese Simplified encoding (View Menu>>Encoding). This is odd since these are traditional characters.

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[Antonius]

Here's an image for those of you who don't have the language kits installed:

[Antonius]

There is one character (´¹ sa duo4 de duo4) which is incorrect. The correct, classical character should have an earth radical next to it. Unfortunately, none of the modern word processors have this character, so I can't type it.

Many thanks to my Chinese professor (aka Lotus) for her help with this. Feichang xiexie, laoshi.

[pak mei 1]

has any one heard of 'jik-bo' or gik-bo
and can any one tell me what this means in chinese(mandarin or cantonese)

thankyou

[xcubic2002]

Hey Antony,
I have the Heart Sutra in Sanskrit Chant. Is there any way I can load it up in here somewhere, to share with everybody else? It's about 4,5 mb

[Antonius]

Hey Joe,

4.5MB is a bit big. Is it an image file or a sound file?

[xcubic2002]

Opss! Forgot to mention. It's an audio file. Sowwwie.

[Antonius]

It would be nice to post the file, but 4.5 megs might clog up the server. Ask Dan his opinion.

If Dan says yes, or if you can find a way to compress the file to a reasonable size, then go ahead and post it in either the Zen or Pure Land sections. This section is purely for Chinese terminology.

[subclock]

hey xcubic2002 ,

Am I correct in thinking that this file is in the Mp3 format ?

If so ,there is a program called One-Click Audio Converter in which you can decide on what quality to compress any audio file type . You can also convert to different audio types ( .ogg files are far smaller than mp3s and are of a better quality ).

You have to buy the program to use it forever , but if you are only interested in using it now there is a free trial version that expires after a time limit .

I am sure you can make the file drastically smaller without losing so much quality that you can no longer hear what is going on .

Good luck ,
Kevin

[xcubic2002]

Thanks for the tip Kevin. I'll definitely look it up.
See if I can come up with some smaller. I'd not try converting into .ogg though, they are really small files and for the life of me I can never make them open on me battered pc. Even if I don't manage to make the file smaller I will still hand it in to my Sifu and see if he can do something with it.

Cheers